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The Big Bang Theory -- One gag, over and over. Obnoxious, like Chinese water torture.

2 Broke Girls (oddly enough created by Whitney and better than her own show) -- Much worse than her own show. Has some witty lines but the endless cupcake situations with the girls are uber-boring and everytime the grotesque and nauseating Polish blob enters the room I have to fast-forward. Not funny.

Modern Family -- Endless flat and stereotyped gay jokes, a barely updated Charo racial stereotype, and "aren't we funny cuz we're so weird" isn't funny. At all. It's just depressing.

Suburgatory -- The girl and dad are so sexy together it's confusing when they never actually pull a Chinatown. This almost makes it but the "fish outa water" plots end up flat and uninventive, and then all you're left with is the snarky dialog, which is ok, but just not enough.

The Big Bang Theory -- One gag, over and over. Obnoxious, like Chinese water torture.

I did think that the episodes this season have been at least fairly week, though not obnoxious to me. That changed with the last new episode. Hilarious (and sad at the same time.)

But don't a lot of shows have the same kind of thing? Murders committed, solved. Someone has strange disorder no one can figure out, try something doesn't work. Solved at end of show.

I remember back in the 80s, watching Murder, She Wrote. Likable character on the show, all the characters liked her. Always wondered why no one said "Stay away! Whenever you show up, someone gets killed!"

That's why I've never been able to get past crime shows. The strict formula is so up front and heavy-handed it's like hearing the same "knock-knock" joke over and over. And the bad guys are always so much more interesting than the good guys, but they always lose. I guess that's why Dexter has hung in there so long.

That's why I've never been able to get past crime shows. The strict formula is so up front and heavy-handed it's like hearing the same "knock-knock" joke over and over. And the bad guys are always so much more interesting than the good guys, but they always lose. I guess that's why Dexter has hung in there so long.

The biggest gripe I have about crime shows is that once you reconize the actor playing one of the suspect he is almost the guity one.

Same for Gossip Girl, last season (6th). Had a great run, very successful. But this last season it's totally jumped the shark. It's like the awkward conversation you have with the one-night-stand during your walk of shame. You just wanna get the frick outa there.

I've added my own cancellation to a few shows this year. First on the list of returning shows that I removed timers for is Hawaii Five-O. For me if you can't care about any of the characters on a show, especially by the 3rd season, then it isn't doing anything right. I'm tired of the overacting by both the male leads and the mostly idiotic story lines they come up with. Frankly they could kill any of the regular characters off and they wouldn't be missed.

I like Whitney. While it's not in the same league as I Love Lucy, I do enjoy the occasional Lucy-Ricky dynamic between Whitney and Alex. Hopefully there will be more of it this year.

I like Whitney, too. But I may also be the only person on the planet who doesn't find I Love Lucy particularly funny. I also couldn't take The New Girl. I've tried to watch Big Bang Theory; I agree that it is the same gag over and over, but it is also an offensive stereotype of Nerds.

I don't find BBT offensive as a geek. What's really cool is that they get actual scientists and a real astronaut to make an appearance as themselves, let alone a regular cast member with a Ph.D in the same field as the character.

I don't find BBT offensive as a geek. What's really cool is that they get actual scientists and a real astronaut to make an appearance as themselves, let alone a regular cast member with a Ph.D in the same field as the character.

That's definitely what makes the show better. We talk about it at work a lot and how they get things right. So far only one thing we've caught has been wrong and that was on the iPhone app episode a couple of years ago.